Earth space planet blue marble nasa wallpapers hd desktop and mobile backgrounds backgrounds with 3840x2160 resolution for personal use available.
Nasa blue marble wallpaper.
Published december 6 2012.
Day and night is accurately represented depending on the sun s overhead position which depends on the time of day and the day of the year.
A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.
It creates desktop backgrounds that are accurate representations of the earth.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface.
See the blue marble next generation a true color earth dataset including seasonal dynamics from modis 880 kb pdf for acknowledgments.
Next generation was produced by reto stöckli nasa earth observatory nasa goddard space flight center.
Desktop earth is a wallpaper generator.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
Using a collection of satellite based observations scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface oceans sea ice and clouds into a seamless true color mosaic of every square kilometer 386 square mile of our planet.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
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A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp in this amazing space wallpaper.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
This animated globe shows the city lights of the world as they appeared to the new suomi npp satellite which has at least 10 times better light resolving power than previous night viewing satellites.
The imagery is based on nasa s blue marble next and earth s city lights.
Evans command module pilot.
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This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
Wm 544791 is the search number for these image.
It was taken by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and is one of the most reproduced images in history.